Anthropology Quote by Clifford Geertz

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

— Clifford Geertz

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

— Asia Kate Dillon

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender…

— Maria Konnikova

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both…

— Gloria Steinem

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have…

— Clifford Geertz

It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.

— Angela Ahrendts

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

— Clifford Geertz

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

— Clifford Geertz

Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell,…

— Camille Paglia

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine…

— Marianne Williamson

I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own…

— Lorraine Hansberry